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THE SOUL 

ITS ORGAN AND 

DEVELOPMENT 



FROM MAN 
TO SUPERMAN 



Jasper William Corey, M. D. 



(all rights reserved) 



Published by Progressive Publishing Company 

523 W. Eighth Street, Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A. 
1913 









Copyright, 1913, by Jasper William Corey, M. D. 

Printed in the United States of America. 

Published May, 1913. 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

1. The Social Upheaval; Its Cause and 

Remedy 19 

2. The Brains; Their Nature and Functions. 

Historical 31 

3. Metaphysics 45 

4. The Mind; Its Organ and Development.. 51 

5. Psychology, the Science of the Soul; Its 

Powers and Functions 59 

6. The Soul; Its Organ, and Analysis of Its 

Faculties 69 

7. Dualism ; the Old and New Interpretation. 

Mysticism 87 

8. Superman; The Meaning Not Clearly 

Understood. Definition 97 

9. The True Progress of Mankind, and How 

Promoted 105 

10. Education; Its Purport and Aims Ill 

11. Sociology, in Relation to Man's Develop- 

ment 125 

12. Teaching, Developing the Soul Faculties.. 141 



"The science of the Soul is the most attractive and in- 
teresting of the sciences; it is also, because of the 
world's ignorance of the subject, the most difficult." 



PREFACE 

"We must know what our predecessors have known, if 
we do not wish to deceive ourselves and others." — Hip- 
pocrates. 

How can we know that which our 
predecessors have known? By study- 
ing the records of their learning, and by 
scientific research. Scientific research 
constantly enlarges the boundary of 
knowledge, and increases true learning. 

Varo divided the past ages of the 
world into three periods : the unknown, 
the fabulous and the historical. The 
first period lies buried in the silence and 
oblivion of remote antiquity. Practi- 
cally the only hints of it, preserved to us 
at the present time, are contained in the 
Hebrew Scriptures. The second period 
we find described by ancient poets such 



as Homer and Hesiod, and others who 
wrote in a day even more remote. The 
third period is recorded in historical 
writings, to which we may refer with 
reasonable certainty. 

The Bible is the great book of life. It 
depicts evil as well as goodness in human 
character, deed and environment, and 
plainly indicates how evil may be 
avoided, and its opposite attained. 
Whatever of error, myth or legend may 
be contained in the Scriptures, the value 
of their presentation of the right rule of 
living for the entire human race re- 
mains. 

Bacon tells us that the secret learning 
of the ancients seems separated and con- 
cealed from the history and knowledge 
of the following ages by a veil of poetic 
fables, interposing between the things 
that are lost, and those that remain. 
Fables, parables and allegories, he goes 

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on to say, are of great use to instruct 
or illustrate. ' ' Every man of any learn- 
ing/' he maintains, "must readily allow 
that this method of instructing is ex- 
ceedingly useful, and sometimes neces- 
sary in the sciences, as it opens an easy 
and familiar passage to the human 
mind. Hence, in the first ages, while the 
minds of men were incapable of receiv- 
ing such things as did not fall under and 
strike the senses, fables, parables and al- 
legories were of necessity resorted to." 

By referring to historical records, 
which are now easily obtained in the li- 
braries, we may determine what has been 
discovered on most any subject during 
the historical period. 

At present mankind does not seem to 
be moving visibly toward the highest 
ideal in the conduct of life. "The great 
masses are drifting without compass or 
chart, waiting for a prophet to deliver 

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them. They are quite generally dissat- 
isfied with the prevailing industrial sys- 
tems, governments and religions. " 

A careful review of the progress of 
man in past ages brings to light the fol- 
lowing facts. Millions upon millions of 
human beings have perished from the 
earth without contributing to the prog- 
ress of humanity. These left no records. 
A few thousands, through research, ex- 
ploration and experiment, have added 
their quota to the deep-laid foundations 
of exact knowledge. Their names are 
preserved in history. But only a few 
great Souls seem to have been chosen 
to perform the one highest service allot- 
ted to man in the interests of the real 
progress of humanity. These have 
summed up and sifted the ethical signifi- 
cance of past events, deducing from 
their investigations truths which serve 
as beacon lights to men, and constitute 



the real landmarks of history. The 
most important of their discoveries is 
that in the development of the higher 
or intellectual faculties lies the hope of 
humanity. 

The topics of religion and immortal- 
ity have no place in this volume, whose 
purpose is limited to the investigation 
of the organs of the mind and of the 
Soul, the faculties through which they 
find expression, and their development. 
The Soul, religion and immortality 
have been considered inseparable since 
the days of antiquity, and are almost 
invariably grouped together in treatises 
on the Soul. Because of this the author 
wishes to make plain the fact that in 
the present pages this trinity will not 
be considered as inseparable, the Soul, 
independently, being the subject of dis- 
cussion. 



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DISCLAIMER 

The author is aware of his ignorance 
and incapacity to formulate an educa- 
tional system adequate to solve the 
great problem of life. His crude effort 
may posibly be the means of causing 
others, better qualified, to give man- 
kind a clearer solution. This is the 
problem: how may ignorant, and bar- 
barous human beings be changed into 
what we may call the super-human — the 
wise, the educated, the humane? If 
there be a word of truth in history, 
there has never been a civilized State 
or Nation upon earth. Civilization 
means education, refinement, cultiva- 
tion, righteousness, benevolence, the 
prevalence of the kind and loving spirit 
in the highest sense of the term. It 
means "Love thy neighbor as thy- 
self"; and that " Righteousness exalt- 
eth a Nation." 

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Alfred Russell Wallace writes: 
" Compared with our astonishing prog- 
ress in physical science, and its prac- 
tical application, our system of govern- 
ment, of administrative justice, of na- 
tional education, and our entire social 
and moral organization remains in a 
state of barbarism. Recently I have 
been meditating upon the condition of 
human progress, and have taken a gen- 
eral survey of all history from those 
wonderful new discoveries in Egypt, 
going back 7,000 years, to the present 
day, I have come to the general con- 
clusion that there has been no advance 
either in intellect or morals from the 
days of the earliest Egyptians and Syr- 
ians down to the keel-laying of the lat- 
est dreadnaught. Through all those 
thousands of years, morals and intel- 
lect have been stationary." 

"The fault of our present defective 
educational system does not lie in the 

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lack of enthusiasm or facilities, but in 
not understanding the fundamental 
principles that are vital to higher de- 
velopment. "We teachers are search- 
ing for the fundamental principles of 
the thing we are trying to do. I have 
had the experience of feeling that I 
was bending all my efforts to do a thing 
which was not susceptible of being 
done, and that the teaching that I pro- 
fessed to do was done in a vacuum, as 
if done without an atmosphere in which 
the forces might be transmuted." These 
are the interesting words of Woodrow 
Wilson. 

If the Supreme Being desires to com- 
municate to man the mysteries of the 
higher life, man must be endowed with 
the higher faculties before he may be 
able to understand these mysteries. 
The higher faculties are those of the 
intellect — the faculties of the Soul. 



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An educational system that does not 
develop the intellectual faculties, and 
reveal the secret of power, is not 
worthy the name. 

Intentionally sentences and para- 
graphs have been repeated. 



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Chapter I. 

THE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL, 
ITS CAUSE AND EEMEDY 



"What ought people to be? How can we change them 
from what they are to what they ought to be?" 

"In view of the disturbed mental and social conditions 
of our time, this age has to inquire what kind of knowl- 
edge is best worth having." 

"It is the business of science to transfer something of 
value from the unknown to the realm of the known." 

"We ought not to expect that things, which have never 
yet been done, can be done except by means which have 
never been tried." 



In the month of September, 1911, John 
Graham Brooks — at one time professor 
of political economy at Harvard Uni- 
versity — said, while speaking to young 
Unitarian ministers in Berkeley: "We 
are facing a crisis in the United States 
at this time just as serious, or more se- 
rious than the crisis before the Civil 
War. We are in the midst of a re^volu- 

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tion. I don't mean that it is coming. It 
is here." This man, famed for his 
knowledge of matters of vital import- 
ance to all mankind, is now lecturer on 
economics at the University of Califor- 
nia. 

The condition of which he spoke ob- 
tains not only in our own country. The 
same unrest may be observed every- 
where. It hangs as a funnel-shaped 
cloud on the horizon, coming nearer and 
nearer, growing larger and more fear- 
some as the cyclone approaches. To 
those who do not like this metaphorical 
presentation of the facts it can only be 
said that self-deception is not only fu- 
tile, but dangerous. Very little stands 
between us and the on-coming trouble. 
We need to know what it means, for if 
we do not interest ourselves in it, it will 
soon interest itself in us. 






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Let us glance at the recent industrial 
crisis in staid and steady England. Men 
were astonished by the violence which 
was precipitated almost without warn- 
ing. An eye witness writes: " Thou- 
sands of soldiers and policemen were 
hurrying hither and thither to quell the 
outbreaks and save property. Violence 
was on every hand. One thing I espe- 
cially noticed was the strange appear- 
ance of men's faces. With many it was 
a vacant look ; others seemed almost in- 
sane. Perplexity was written every- 
where. Why this unrest? Those in 
power oppress the weak, the weak com- 
bine, and resort to violence. And daily 
conditions grow worse. " 

In Leslie's Weekly of August 24th, 
1911, is the following striking editorial : 
1 ' What is the matter % The world seems 
to be upset. Agitation, unrest and dis- 

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trust prevail. Kingdoms are being up- 
rooted, monarchies undermined. Great 
labor disturbances, with loss of life, are 
chronicled on both sides of the ocean. 
Lynchings, north and south, of innocent 
and guilty, are reported. Mobs gather 
at the slightest provocation, and rioters, 
old and young, defy the authorities. 

' ' The divorce courts are working over- 
time. Legislative bodies are debauched 
by demagogues, and rankest corruption 
is widespread. The theatres are crowd- 
ed, while the pews are empty. Under 
what sign of the zodiac are we living? 
Conditions in our cities are serious. 
Many realize this. There is coming 
rapidly and surely an almost universal 
guilt upon the inhabitants of the cities, 
because of the steady increase of de- 
termined wickedness. We are living in 
the midst of an epidemic of crime, at 

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which thoughtful men and women stand 
aghast. The corruption that prevails is 
beyond the power of the pen to describe. 
Every day brings fresh revelations of 
political strife, bribery and fraud ; every 
day brings its heart-sickening record of 
violence and lawlessness ; of indifference 
to human suffering; of brutal, fiendish 
destruction of human life. Every day 
testifies to the increase of insanity, mur- 
der and suicide. The cities of to-day 
are fast becoming like Sodom and Go- 
morrah. Holidays are numerous; the 
whirl of excitement and pleasure at- 
tracts thousands from the sober duties 
of life. The exciting sports — theatre- 
going, racing, gambling, liquor-drinking 
and reveling stimulate every passion to 
activity. The youth are swept away by 
the popular current. They give them- 
selves up to social gaiety and thought- 

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less mirth. They are led on from one 
form of dissipation to another, until 
they lose both the desire and the ca- 
pacity for a life of usefulness. By ev- 
ery species of oppression and extortion 
men are piling up colossal fortunes, 
while the multitude are struggling with 
poverty, compelled to work for small 
wages, unable to secure the barest nec- 
essities of life. Toil and deprivation, 
with no hope of better things, make 
their burden heavy. When pain and 
sickness are added, the burden is almost 
unbearable. Careworn and oppressed, 
they know not where to turn for relief. 
This is a picture of conditions to-day." 

THE CAUSE 

What is the cause of this terrible con- 
dition of society % Ignorance is the fun- 
damental cause; then comes the use of 
drugs — poisonous compounds taken into 

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the system for the purpose of producing 
artificial physical effects. Only those 
who have given attention to this sub- 
ject have any conception of the quantity 
of alcohol, opium, tobacco, and number- 
less other drugs used by the present 
generation. It has been generally sup- 
posed that we, as a race, are gaining in 
physical vigor. But such is not the 
case. On the contrary our actual phys- 
ical vigor is diminishing. It must now 
be generally admitted that the hygienic 
standard of the toilers in our great cities 
deteriorates with every generation. A 
study of the life of the people in the 
countries where the degeneration is 
most marked will reveal the fact that 
there is an almost constant resort to ar- 
tificial stimulants. All nations are suf- 
fering from the blight ; and the stimu- 
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can matter little what drug is used, all 
have the same general effect on the hu- 
man constitution. In New York City 
alone the increase during the last five 
years in the demand for cocaine has been 
four hundred per cent. In England this 
habit is rapidly spreading. 

It is not hard work that brings about 
the prevalent physical and mental 
wreckage, for our forefathers worked 
harder, and did not have the labor-sav- 
ing devices of our present day. It is due 
to abnormal habits and the abuse of the 
physical system. And when human be- 
ings, their physical constitutions ruined, 
their mentality blighted by the use of 
drugs, become parents, it is not difficult 
to surmise whence comes our criminal 
class. " Within one year from this day 
ten thousand people will have been mur- 
dered in the United States, in which 

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country 126 out of each million inhabi- 
tants are murdered annually. In Can- 
ada the percentage is only seven to the 
million. Murderers increase in num- 
bers, while the percentage of punish- 
ments decrease.'' 

The Chicago Tribune says: "We are 
drifting into national degeneracy. We 
are becoming a crowd of well-drilled, 
well-disciplined, commonplace individ- 
uals, with strong Philistine habits, and 
notions of general mediocrity. We have 
clever business men, cunning artisans, 
resourceful politicians, adyoit leaders 
of new cults, but no artists, no scientists, 
no philosophers, no statesmen, no gen- 
uine talent, and no true genius. Boris 
Sidis, one of the leading psychologists 
of the times, says we are blind to the 
barbaric evils of our environment — in 
fact, he calls us bat-blind, mole-blind, 

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and stone-blind. And what are the un- 
derlying causes of this state of affairs % 
'Our vicious system of education, and 
our drunken optimism/ declares this 
writer, in no moderate terms. Our edu- 
cators are owl-wise, narrow-minded 
pedants, ignorant of the real, vital 
problems of human interest." 

THE REMEDY. 

Before the present unsatisfactory 
condition of society can be made bet- 
ter, it will become necessary to formu- 
late and inculcate a scientific, educa- 
tional system which will bring about a 
transformation in the mentality of hu- 
man beings. Scientific education alone 
has power to raise humanity to a higher 
level of understanding, and to enable 
men to cast aside the unnaturally ac- 
quired and degenerating habits which 
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ITS ORGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

destroyed for lack of knowledge. They 
ought to be civilized; at present they 
are in a condition of thinly-veiled sav- 
agery. And it shall be the purpose of 
the chapters which follow to demon- 
strate how this purpose may be accom- 
plished; and to answer the question: 
"How may the members of our human 
family be changed from what they are 
to what they ought to be?" 



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Chapter II. 

THE BRAINS, THEIR NATURE 

AND FUNCTIONS. 
HISTORICAL 

"There is a principle which is a bar against all in- 
formation, which is proof against all argument, and which 
cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance: this 
principle is contempt prior to examination." 

The brains have heretofore been con- 
sidered one organ with two hemis- 
pheres. This description is no longer 
correct. The brains are a pair of or- 
gans, as are the ears and eyes. 

HISTORICAL 

The Hebrews, and others who lived 
before them, do not appear to have had 
any knowledge of the brain. The word 
brain does not appear in the Scrip- 
tures. 

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Alcmaeon, a pupil of Pythagoras of 
Crotona, (500 B. C), the first anato- 
mist, and who is said to have discov- 
ered the optic nerve and Eustacian 
tubes, taught that the brain was the 
source of feeling and movement, and 
that it was, also, the seat of the mind. 

Lucippus, the " laughing philoso- 
pher,' ' (B. C. 460), and one of the 
greatest spirits of all time, taught that 
a healthy condition of the brain implies 
mental health; and that disease of the 
organ implies mental disease — a point 
of view not reached again until the 
eighteenth century. He, too, recognized 
the brain as the seat of the mind. 

Plato, (B. C. 427), assumed two 
principles : absolute intelligence and 
matter. The human Soul he declared 
to be an emanation from absolute in- 
telligence. Its immortal part, he 

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claimed, dwells in the spherical head, its 
mortal part resides in the body, and 
mind has its seat in the heart. The 
heart is the origin of the blood ves- 
sels, and, as the seat of the mind, re- 
ceives through it the commands of the 
superior Soul. 

Paraxagoras, (B. C. 325), acquired 
immortal fame by his discovery of the 
distinction between arteries and nerves. 
The brain, according to his hypothesis, 
was a mere dependence of the spinal 
cord, the heart being the origin of the 
nerves. 

Aristotle, (B. C. 384), distinguished 
the nerves as such, but called them ca- 
nals of the brain, which organ he de- 
scribed as bloodless, and of the largest 
size in man. 

Herophilus, (B. C. 325), a pupil of 
Paraxagoras of Cos, knew the nerves, 

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THE SOUL 

and ascribed to them capacity for sen- 
sation. According to him, the fourth 
cerebral ventricle is the seat of the 
Soul. 

Erasistratus, (B. C. 312), divided the 
nerves into those of sensation and mo- 
tion, the former arising from the brain 
substance, the latter from the mem- 
branes. As regards the brain, he de- 
scribed accurately its structure, con- 
volutions and ventricles. He regarded 
the convolutions of the cerebrum — and 
still more those of the cerebellum — as 
the seat of thought, and located mental 
diseases in the brain. 

Claudius Galen, (A. D. 131), was to 
the medical world what Aristotle was to 
the philosophical — the leading law- 
giver of both Christians and Arabians 
during the entire Middle Ages. He 
therefore attained the widest reputa- 

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tion of all physicians up to his time. 
He claimed the brain to be the seat of 
the rational Soul, and an organ for 
cooling the heart. The animal spirits, 
he asserted, are the cause of the Soul's 
activity. They originate from the 
blood, but in the brain become animal 
spirits. He demonstrated that the 
brain is the seat of thought and feel- 
ing; and this is accepted as fact to- 
day. 

MODERN DISCOVERIES 

From Galen's time until 1861 — a 
period of about seventeen hundred 
years — no valuable discoveries were 
made. An eminent French surgeon, 
Paul Broca, in 1861 read a paper be- 
fore a society in Paris, in which he de- 
clared that he had located the seat of 
articulate speech in the third frontal 
convolution of the brain, which is now 

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called to his honor Broca's convolu- 
tion. He cited several post-mortem 
examinations of the brains of persons 
paralyzed on one side, with loss of 
speech, due to apoplexy. It was dem- 
onstrated that, in all cases, Broca's con- 
volution was damaged. 

This fact led to the investigation of 
the brain for the seats of other facul- 
ties. Within the past decade, it has 
been shown that the special senses and 
motion have their anatomical seats in 
the brain. These anatomical seats are 
found in both brains, or hemispheres, 
and are congenital. The astonishing 
fact was, however, demonstrated that 
the seat of the faculty of speech is de- 
veloped in but one hemisphere. When 
Broca's convolution, which is the seat 
of speech, is damaged, the power of 
speech is lost, although the correspond- 

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ing convolution in the other hemis- 
phere remains uninjured. It was dis- 
covered that the hand of the infant 
which it uses most readily determines 
which hemisphere shall be used for the 
faculty of speech, the speech centers be- 
ing located in the left brain with right- 
handed persons, and in the right brain 
with left-handed persons. The nerves 
cross at the base of the brain like the 
letter X. 

CONCLUSIONS 

Post-mortems on persons who have 
been paralyzed for years on one side, 
where arm and leg were affected, 
have demonstrated that the subjects' 
thoughts, actions and ability to attend 
to business were not impaired, provid- 
ing the limbs were paralyzed on the 
left side of right-handed persons, on 
the opposite side of left-handed per- 

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sons. The great fact has thus been con- 
clusively proven that all of the seven 
mental faculties of the human mind 
are located in one hemisphere of the 
brain. If, therefore, but one hemis- 
phere is required for all of the faculties 
of the mind, the other hemisphere may 
be used for the higher or intelectual 
faculties. The great physiologist, Sir 
Michael Foster, remarked: "We are. 
completely in the dark as to the reason 
why we have two hemispheres." Phys- 
iologists have left us with an organ un- 
named, unused, and its functions un- 
known. 

This organ may be named the Super- 
human Brain, the organjof the higher 
or intelectual faculties — the faculties 
of the Soul. In speaking of the two 
hemispheres of the brain they shall 
hereinafter be termed the Human 

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Brain and the Super-human Brain, the 
Human Brain being the organ of the 
mind, and the Super-human Brain be- 
ing that of the Soul. 

NEKVOUS SYSTEM 

*"The nervous matter is divided into 
two great systems, as follows: (1) The 
cerebro-spinal system, composed of the 
brain and spinal cord with the nerves 
directly connected with these centers. 
This system is specially connected with 
the functions of relation, or of animal 
life. The centers preside over general 
sensation, the special senses, volun- 
tary and some involuntary movements, 
intellectation, and, in short, all of the 
functions that characterize the animal. 
(2) The sympathetic system. This sys- 
tem is specially connected with the f unc- 



* Austin Flint, Jr., M.D., L.L.D. Text Book of Hu- 
man Physiology, Third Edition, 1886. 

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tions relating to nutrition. Although 
this system presides over functions en- 
tirely distinct from those characteristic 
of and peculiar to animals, the centers 
of this system all have an anatomical 
and physiological connection with the 
cerebro-spinal nerves. 

"High in the animal scale, the gen- 
eral development of the nervous sys- 
tem presents little, if any, variation; 
hut special attributes are co-existent 
with the development of special or- 
gans. The development in this way of 
particular portions of the nervous sys- 
tem is in accordance with the peculiar 
conditions of existence of different ani- 
mals ; it is a necessary part of their or- 
ganization, and is not dependent upon 
education or intelligence. Examples of 
this are in the extraordinary develop- 
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smell in different animals. There are 
animals in which these special senses 
possess a delicacy of perception to 
which men can never attain; but man 
stands immeasurably above all other be- 
ings by virtue of the immense prepond- 
erance of what is known as the ence- 
phalic portion of the nervous system. 
These brief considerations will convey 
some idea of the physiological import- 
ance of the nervous system ; of the care 
which should be exercised in its study. 
The nervous system is anatomically and 
physiologically distinct from all sys- 
tems and organs in the body. It re- 
ceives impressions made upon the term- 
inal branches of its sensory portion, 
and it conveys stimulus to parts, de- 
termining and regulating the opera- 
tion of their functions; but its physio- 
logical properties are inherent, and it 

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gives to no tissue or organ its special 
power of performing its particular 
function. The nervous system connects 
into a co-ordinate organism all parts 
and organs of the body. It is the me- 
dium through which all impressions are 
received. It animates or regulates all 
movements, voluntary and involuntary. 
It regulates the functions of secretion, 
nutrition, calorification, and all the pro- 
cesses of organic life. 

"In addition to its functions as a 
medium of conduction and communica- 
tion, the nervous system, in certain of 
its parts, is capable of receiving impres- 
sions, and of generating a stimulating 
influence, or force, peculiar to itself — 
nerve force. The nerve-cells are the 
only parts capable, under any circum- 
stances, of generating the nerve-force. 
There is no exception to this rule. The 

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so-called nervous irritability enables the 
nerves to conduct from the centers to 
the periphery a force which is generated 
in the gray substance. This is the nerve 
force. Its production is one of the most 
remarkable of the phenomena of life; 
and its essence, or the exact mechanism 
of its generation, is one of the problems 
that has thus far eluded the investiga- 
tions of physiologists. We know, how- 
ever, that the nerves serve simply as 
conductors, and the nerve-cells generate 
the nerve-force. It is evident, also, that 
all of the vital phenomena are controlled 
through this wonderful agent; and, 
throughout our study of the nervous 
system, we shall be constantly investi- 
gating the phenomena attending the 
operation of the nerve-force, while we 
are compelled to admit our ignorance 
of its essential nature. 

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"No one, at the present day, pretends 
that the nerve-force is identical with 
any form of electricity; and the ques- 
tion does not now demand discussion. 

"Our study of the nerve-force, then, 
leaving its essential nature unexplained, 
is confined to a description of its char- 
acteristic phenomena. ' ' 



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Chapter III. 
METAPHYSICS 

"Either there is or there is not a higher life than rec- 
ognized by our ordinary selves. If there is, it is the busi- 
ness of science to ascertain its nature, and teach us how 
we may attain it." 

The term metaphysics was first ap- 
plied to a group of philosophical disser- 
tations by Aristotle, because they came 
after his treatises upon physical mat- 
ters. Artistotle said: "That which is 
first in order of being is last in order 
of knowledge. ' ' The term has since been 
given various meanings. 

Metaphysics is the science which de- 
termines what can and what cannot be 
known of being, and the laws of being. 
It is the science of mental and intellect- 
ual phenomena — hence: the scientific 

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knowledge of mental and intellectual 
phenomena. The subdivisions of meta- 
physics are mental science and psychol- 
ogy. Mental science has to do with the 
development and functions of the men- 
tal faculties which constitute the mind. 
Psychology is the science of the Soul, 
and has to do with the higher or intel- 
lectual faculties of the Soul. The men- 
tal faculties are knowledge, memory, 
speech, conception, imagination, judg- 
ment and reason. These faculties are 
developed from without by impressions 
received through the medium of the 
senses. The intellectual or Soul facul- 
ties are developed within by the power 
of the will — " analytic insight." 

The faculties of the Soul are knowl- 
edge of good and evil, wisdom, under- 
standing, righteousness, benevolence, 
purity and love. There is a certain dy- 

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namic impulse derived from thought 
and knowledge — " analytic insight; and 
this insight arises from concentration of 
all the developed powers upon the sub- 
ject in hand to the exclusion of all 
others, marshalling all of the facts and 
opinions obtainable upon it, dwelling on 
these, scrutinizing and comparing them 
till a light flashes on the whole subject." 
We then perceive clearly. 

The definition of this science is gener- 
ally understood as the scientific knowl- 
edge of mental phenomena — mental 
philosophy — a science occupied exclu- 
sively with mind. Metaphysics should 
mean the relation of the mental, intel- 
lectual and physical faculties in their 
conjoint operation in man — the relation 
of function, or interdependence between 
body, mind and Soul. That which has to 
do exclusively with the development and 

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THE SOUL 

nature of the mind should be termed 
mental science ; and that which concerns 
the Soul alone, psychology. In the au- 
thor's opinion, this division and defin- 
ing of metaphysics will be of benefit to 
students of this science. 

" Metaphysicians have theorized and 
discussed the origin and nature of the 
human mind for centuries, and have 
never discovered the physical basis or lo- 
cation of the mental faculties. Medical 
men have made all of these discoveries. 
The science of metaphysics is not 
thought well of at this time, and many 
writers use another term instead — psy- 
chology. ' ' The term psychology is, how- 
ever, much more confusing, and its true 
meaning less understood than the term 
metaphysics. Psychology is a higher 
science than that of the mind. Its true 
meaning is the science of the Soul — the 

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science that has to do with the higher 
or intellectual faculties which belong 
exclusively to the Soul. The term psy- 
chology should never be used in connec- 
tion with the mental or mind faculties if 
we wish to avoid endless confusion. 
Descartes writes : ' ' The human mind is 
but a point ; we have found no guaran- 
tee for its continuous existence. There 
is no question more important to solve 
than that of knowing what human 
knowledge is, and how far it extends. 
The mind appears to be shut up in the 
magic circle of its own ideas, without 
capacity to pass beyond, or contemplate 
anything but its own ideas. " 

Man has become weary of his 
thoughts, and seeks for higher power to 
free him from his mental prison. The 
Soul soars, the mind grovels. 



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Chapter IV. 

THE MIND, 
ITS OBGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

"The human mind is but a point . . . appears to 
be shut up in the magic circle of its own ideas." 

— Descartes. 

"The mind has its limits; its boundary reached, it 
knows not whither to go." 

Maeterlinck. 

The physical basis of the mind is the 
hemisphere, or brain, in which the 
seven faculties of the mind are located 
and developed. These faculties are de- 
veloped by impressions from without, 
received through the medium of the 
senses. The mental faculties are knowl- 
edge, memory, speech, conception, imag- 
ination, judgment and reason. When 
the faculties of the mind act co-ordinate- 
ly, the result is the will. The will is the 

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THE SOUL 

highest power or faculty of the human 
mind, and is plainly the endowment by 
which man is capable of choosing, and 
deciding to do or not to do. 

Romanes claims that man's highest 
mental powers have arisen from the 
lower stages of the same faculties in his 
primate ancestors, and that he has no 
single mental faculty which is his ex- 
clusive prerogative. His whole mental 
life, indeed, differs from that of the 
nearest related mammals only in degree, 
and not in kind. Human speech differs 
from that of the brutes only in degree 
of development, not in essence or kind. 

Huxley's statement is: "As to the 
convolutions, the brains of the apes ex- 
hibit every stage of progress, from the 
almost smooth brain of the marmoset to 
the orang and chimpanzee, which fall 
but little below man. So far as cerebral 

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ITS ORGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

structure goes, therefore, it is clear that 
men differ less from the chimpanzee and 
orang, than these do even from the mon- 
keys, and that the difference between the 
brain of the chimpanzee and of man is 
almost insignificant when compared 
with that between the chimpanzee brain 
and that of a lemur." 

The human brain is the organ of the 
mind, and mind cannot exist apart 
from this brain. ' i The mind, in the last 
analysis," Dr. William Hanna Thom- 
son affirms, "is the product of the com- 
position and properties of brain matter ; 
and its operations, of whatever sort, are 
reactions among the brain elements to 
the play of external forces. ' ' 

PECULIARITIES OF BRAIN FUNCTIONS 

It has been repeatedly demonstrated 
that persons have lived for several years 
with one hemisphere of the brain de- 

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THE SOUL 

stroyed by disease. Yet none of their 
mental faculties were impaired. They 
thought, acted, and attended to busi- 
ness as well as before the injury to one 
hemisphere, the only noticeable differ- 
ence being that one side of their bodies 
was incapable of voluntary movements. 
Dr. Pierce Bailey, in the March number 
of the American Journal of Medical 
Sciences, 1889, gives the history of a 
patient about fifty years of age, para- 
lyzed on the left side. He lived ten 
years, and showed no sign that his 
mental faculties were impaired. After 
death, the autopsy proved that the 
right hemisphere of the brain was 
disorganized and atrophied. Dr. Bailey, 
in commenting on this, said: " Put- 
ting all together, the man during 
life manifested nothing to indicate 
that the power of the operations 

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of his mind had been affected; and yet 
after death the whole of one hemisphere 
was found to be greatly lessened in size, 
and the frontal lobes, which some regard 
as the seat of the highest functions, were 
almost totally annihilated on one side." 

Medical men have reported several 
cases of persons suddenly losing the fac- 
ulty of speech. Mentally they remained 
the same as before the loss of this facul- 
ty, but for years not a word could they 
utter. Why could they not speak when 
they had corresponding convolutions in 
both hemispheres, and only one had un- 
dergone deterioration ? Because the fac- 
ulty of speech was located in the injured 
hemisphere. 

None of the mental faculties can be 
transferred from its original location in 
one hemisphere to the other. That other 
hemisphere is reserved for a higher pur- 

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THE SOUL 

pose : the location of the intellectual fac- 
ulties acquired by impressions made 
upon the brain through the development 
of the will. * 

"Here we come upon a most impres- 
sive fact, namely that by constant repe- 
tition of a given stimulus we can effect a 
permanent anatomical change in our 
brain, and add a specific cerebral func- 
tion to that organ, which it never had be- 
fore, and which, therefore, it could not 
have had originally or acquired sponta- 
neously. The stimulus of the will is far 
more powerful than that which is re- 
ceived through the senses." 

BKAIN DEVELOPED BY INTELLECTUAL POWER 

It may be stated, as a general propo- 
sition, that in the different races of men 



* Dr. William Hanna Thomson, in his book entitled 
"Brain and Personality," has collected a large number 
of reports from medical men, which establish the fact 
beyond doubt that but one of the brains is developed 
by the mind. 

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the cerebrum is developed in proportion 
to the intellectual power. In different 
individuals of the same race, the same 
general rule obtains. It is likewise true 
that proper training and exercise de- 
velop and increase the vigor of all the 
faculties. This will be explained in the 
chapter on education. 

In the place of the ineffectual efforts 
of the unassisted human mind, a gradu- 
ated system of helps must be supplied, 
by the use of which the mind, would 
proceed with unerring and mathemat- 
ical certainty up to the beginning of the 
higher intellectual development of the 
Soul. Mental and intellectual powers 
are proportionate to education. 

Our educational efforts indicate to us 
daily the limitation of the human mind. 
We must develop the intellectual facul- 
ties or fail. 

Human knowledge never amounts to 
certainty, but only to probability. 

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Chapter V. 

PSYCHOLOGY, THE SCIENCE OF 

THE SOUL; ITS POWEES 

AND FUNCTIONS 

"Does it seem incredible that a being whose pursuits 
have been after truth, and whose purest happiness has 
been derived from the acquisition of intellectual power, 
should rise into a state of being, and ascend to the source 
of power and wisdom?" 

New York, January 14, 1913. — Andrew Carnegie, speak- 
ing of the progress of civilization before the National 
Civic Association this afternoon, said: "I believe that 
even on this earth man will yet attain perfection." 

Psychology exhibits what is actually 
known or may be learned concerning the 
Soul, in the forms of science — that is, 
in the forms of exact observation, pre- 
cise definition, fixed terminology, classi- 
fied arrangement, and rational explana- 
tion. Psychology is therefore the sci- 
ence of the inner life. "What, is needed 



THE SOUL 

is a psychology which is marked by im- 
mediate value, intelligence and charac- 
ter/ 9 

The author contends that psychology 
has a physical basis, and that there is a 
special organ in which the faculties of 
the Soul are located. This organ is the 
hemisphere of the brain opposite that 
used for the faculties of the mind. Sci- 
ence has demonstrated that the organ 
last developed performs the highest 
functions. There is no exception to this 
rule. Accordingly, this brain, on which 
the purely mental faculties fail to func- 
tion, must of necessity be the organ of 
the higher intellectual or Soul faculties. 

Thus, correctly speaking, man has two 
brains, not one brain with two hemis- 
pheres. One of these brains is the or- 
gan of the mind, and the other the organ 
of the Soul. 

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ITS ORGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

The faculties of the mind are devel- 
oped by impressions from without 
through the medium of the senses. The 
higher faculties of the Soul are devel- 
oped within by the power of the will. 

The faculties of the Soul are seven in 
number: knowledge of good and evil, 
wisdom, understanding, righteousness, 
benevolence, purity and love. 

The term Soul includes all of the in- 
tellectual faculties. The term mind in- 
cludes all of the mental faculties. 

A scientific system of education, one 
that has power to develop the intellect- 
ual faculties, must be formulated, 
taught and practiced before these higher 
faculties may be developed. This mat- 
ter will be taken up in the chapter on 
education. 

" Students of psychology to-day feel 
the lack of any definite understanding 

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of the term Soul as used by those who 
class themselves as psychologists." 

The word Soul has generally been ap- 
plied to the supposed spiritual es- 
sence of human personality which per- 
sists after death. 

According to the ancient dualistic 
view, the human body is a double entity, 
a mortal body containing an immortal 
Soul which leaves the body after death. 

"The newer or monistic view of the 
Soul contends that man is an unific be- 
ing, and that the body and Soul are in- 
separable ; that the Soul is not an inde- 
pendent thing, but like all other facul- 
ties is regulated in its functioning by the 
structure of the organs of the body, and 
further by the work of the millions of 
cells which constitute these organs. 
From this point of view, psychology is 
merely a department of physiology." 



ITS ORGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 
VIEWS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGISTS 

Modern psychology questions any use 
of the word Soul, unless the author re- 
stricts the term, stating specifically how 
he desires it to be understood. " Psy- 
chologists can discuss Soul scientifically 
only as a mental development based on 
material presented by the senses. ' ' 

"In recent text-books of psychology, 
the word Soul does not occur, and the 
word Mind, indeed, but seldom. Psy- 
chology without a Soul is the order of 
the day." 

1 ' The Soul, ' ' a prominent psychologist 
recently said, "is as dead as the dodo." 

The late Professor James taught that 
there is not only no evidence of its ex- 
istence, but that it is a useless concep- 
tion. "Souls," he contended, "have 

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worn out both themselves and their wel- 
come." To this school of thinkers, to 
speak of the Soul is pure mysticism, and 
should be rejected as unscientific. There- 
fore, modern psychologists — so-called — 
reject the Soul as superfluous. 

TKUE PSYCHOLOGY 

Nevertheless, true psychology — the 
science of the Soul — "is the most attrac- 
tive and interesting of sciences." It is 
also, "because of the world's ignorance 
of the subject, the most difficult." The 
subject has been uppermost in the 
minds of men of all times. Thousands 
have written their views respecting the 
Soul, yet there are as many different 
opinions to-day as to what the Soul 
really is as in any of the past ages. 

The terms mind and Soul, as has been 
said, owing to their metaphysical and 
theological associations, are confusing. 
Psychology must be reduced to an exact 

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science before knowledge of the subject 
may be attained. 

"The Soul attains notions and truths 
of which no effort of sensation or imag- 
ination can give us the slightest appre- 
hension. " Man is transformed into a 
higher being by the the power of the in- 
tellectual faculties, or Soul. And as the 
ape is to man, so shall man be to Su- 
perman. 

The task of developing the faculties of 
the Soul is no longer a difficult one, be- 
cause we now have a physical basis upon 
which to build. A scientific, educational 
system will remove all obstacles. We 
may know ourselves, if we desire to at- 
tain such knowledge. 

Men have been strangers to them- 
selves, and in consequence have never 
been able to find a correct solution for 
the great problems of life. These prob- 

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THE SOUL 

lems may be solved only by progressive 
development towards the highest intel- 
lectual ideal. When this ideal is at- 
tained we shall feel that we have been 
transformed into new beings, and truly 
live for the first time. This is the new 
birth which enables us to love our neigh- 
bors as ourselves, and to do unto others 
as we would have them do unto us. 

All ideals are excellent, if practical. 
But if we cannot point out the straight 
and narrow path that leads to their at- 
tainment, they are only flights of fancy. 

A scientific method of supplying man- 
kind with truths which are at present 
beyond the human powers must be em- 
ployed, because the mind has its limits 
— "its boundary reached it knows not 
whither to go." 

The powers of man tend toward 
higher knowledge than the mind is able 

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to attain. If we desire to solve the mys- 
teries, we must first develop the facul- 
ties of the Soul. 



"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the 
small man seeks is in others." — Confucius. 

'When the Soul has departed, in which alone intelli- 
gence exists, men take away the body of their dearest 
friend, and put it out of sight as soon as possible." 

— Socrates. 



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Chapter VI. 

THE SOUL, ITS ORGAN AND 
ANALYSIS OF ITS FACULTIES 

"The Soul attains notions and truths of which no ef- 
fort of sensation or imagination can give us the slightest 
apprehension." 

Philosophers have never come to any 
agreement as to the nature or the es- 
sence of the Soul. Some have thought 
it to be a subtle air ; others have main- 
tained that it is a flame ; a number have 
considered it an essence. Equally vari- 
ous have been opinions concerning its 
location. It has been located in the ven- 
tricles of the brain, throughout the 
whole body, in the stomach, in the heart, 
in the blood, and between the eyebrows. 
The soul has, since the days of the an- 
cient Egyptians, been considered a spir- 

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itual essence that leaves the body, and 
persists after death. 

In the chapter on the brain and mind, 
attention has been called to the fact that 
the brain, properly speaking, is a pair of 
organs, and that each hemisphere acts 
independently of the other. It has been 
demonstrated beyond doubt, as shown 
in the preceding chapters, that the fac- 
ulties of the mind are located in but one 
of the two brains, and that in our pres- 
ent state of development we use only 
one. Physiologists have halted at this 
point, and confess that they are com- 
pletely in the dark as to the reason why 
we have two brains. They have left us 
with an organ unnamed, unused, and its 
functions unknown. This organ is 
named by the author the Super-human 
Brain — the organ of the Soul. 

The development of the faculties of 

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the Soul will not be difficult when man 
comprehends the power of scientific edu- 
cation, and understands the sciences 
which have to do with the civilization of 
mankind. 

The human race is divided into three 
classes, savage, barbarous and civilized. 
In the true meaning of the term, how- 
ever, there is not, and never has been a 
civilized nation on the face of the earth. 
" Civilization does not mean the sacri- 
fice of the weak to the strong, but the 
willing sacrifice of the strong to the 
weak/' The leading nations of the 
world to-day are made up of barbarians. 
Until the intellectual faculties shall 
have been developed in man, civilization 
may never be attained. Soulless people 
cannot be civilized. 

"Man appears to be the only being on 
earth unable to complete his destiny. 

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Every other being completes its destiny, 
attains the utmost end of its faculties. 
Man alone is always striving to advance 
in his conceptions and achievements, yet 
has never completed a single science. A 
brute in a few years arrives at a point of 
perfection which it can never pass if it 
lived for thousands of years. Brutes 
are not haunted and disquieted by the 
desire of an ideal felicity which they 
cannot find. Man alone sighs after an 
image of infinite perfection." 

FACULTIES OF THE SOUL 

Knowledge of good and evil is the 
first of the intellectual faculties of the 
Soul. This great faculty has never 
been well-defined nor understood. Good, 
in its highest and best sense, is a cer- 
tain disposition of the will — a desire 
to do to others as we would that others 
should do to us — opposed to evil. Good 



ITS 0KGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

cannot be applied to material things in 
the sense it is here used. They are in- 
different, neither good nor evil. In striv- 
ing for good, the end is to become like 
God. 

"For so is the will of God, that with 
well doing ye may put to silence the ig- 
norance of foolish men."* 

"Be ye transformed by the renewing 
of your mind (developing your Souls) 
that ye may prove what is that good, and 
acceptable, and perfect will of God."t 

God is the highest conception of the 
intellect, a person deified and honored 
as the chief good. "Good and upright 
is the Lord ; therefore will he teach sin- 
ners in the way. "J " For thou are good, 
thou art good and doest good." 



*1 Peter 2-15. 

tPsa. £5-8. 
SPsa. 86-5. 



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"And the Lord God said: Behold, the 
man is become as one of us, to know good 
and evil."* 

Knowledge of good and evil has power 
to transform man into Superman — a 
god or superhuman being. God, as the 
personification of good, the highest in- 
tellectual ideal, is the meaning of the 
term used here. 

"Knowledge, and the Spirit of the 
Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of 
wisdom and understanding, the spirit 
of knowledge."! 

The spirit of God is defined in the 
above quotation as being knowledge, 
wisdom and understanding, the first 
three faculties of the Soul. 

Knowledge is power. When through 
the means of knowledge the faculties of 



*Gen. 3-22. 
flsa. 11-2. 



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the Soul are developed, we have the ca- 
pacity to distinguish instantly between 
good and evil, between the true and the 
false. We then feel that we have ascend- 
ed to a higher level of existence, and that 
we truly live for the first time. Such 
is the wonderful power of higher knowl- 
edge. 

Wisdom is the capacity to make due 
use of knowledge, judgment, discretion, 
skill, sagacity. Wisdom implies the 
union of high intellectual and moral ex- 
cellence. 

" Happy is the man that findeth wis- 
dom, and the man that getteth under- 
standing/ '* 

" Wisdom is the principal thing, 
therefore get wisdom."! 

" Wisdom is better than riches; and 



*Prov. 3-13. 
fProv, 4-7. 



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all things that may be desired are not to 
be compared to it."* 

"To hate evil is the beginning of 
knowledge; but fools despise wisdom 
and instruction."! 

"Doth not wisdom cry? She stand- 
eth in the top of high places. Unto you, 
O men, I call; and my voice is to the 
sons of man. O ye simple, understand 
wisdom. Hear for I shall speak of ex- 
cellent things. They are all plain to 
him that understandeth ; and right to 
them that find knowledge. Now there- 
fore hearken unto me, O ye children ; for 
blessed are they that keep my ways. 
Blessed is the man that heareth me ; for 
whoso findeth me findeth life. "J 

"But where shall wisdom be found? 



*Prov. 8-11. 
fProv. 1-7. 
JProv. 8. 



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and where is the place of understand- 
ing? It cannot be gotten for gold, 
neither shall silver be weighed for the 
price thereof. Whence then cometh 
wisdom? and where is the place of un- 
derstanding? Behold, to hate evil is 
wisdom ; and to depart from it is under- 
standing."* 

The writers of Scripture did not have 
any knowledge of the brain. They did 
not, therefore, have a clear idea of the 
mental and intellectual faculties, and 
their location. But it is a remarkable 
fact that in no other literature do we 
find anything worth while about the 
higher or intellectual faculties. The 
Bible is the only book that gives the 
slightest information as to how they 
may be developed. 



*Job 28-28. 

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a- 



'I will give you pastors according to 
mine heart, which shall feed you with 
knowledge and understanding."* 

"Behold, Grod exalteth by his power, 
who teacheth like him."t 

"My people are destroyed for lack of 
knowledge."! 

We are also told that Moses was 
learned in all the wisdom of the Egyp- 
tians — Acts 7-22; and that Jesus in- 
creased in wisdom and stature, and in 
favor with God and man — Luke 2-52. 

Wisdom is special intellectual endow- 
ment — capacity for any of the leading 
kinds of Soul activity. 

Understanding is the power to under- 
stand : the higher capacity of the intel- 
lect; the power to distinguish truth 



* Jer. 3-15. 
fJob 36-22. 
JHos. 4-6. 



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from falsehood. This is indeed a re- 
markable faculty. Solomon declares: 

"My son, incline thine ear unto wis- 
dom, and apply thine heart to under- 
stand; yea, if thou criest after knowl- 
edge, and lif test up thy voice for under- 
standing; if thou seekest her as silver, 
and searchest for her as for hid treas- 
ure ; then shalt thou understand. Then 
shalt thou understand righteousness, 
and judgment, and equity; yea, every 
good path. When wisdom entereth into 
thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant 
unto thy Soul ; discretion shall preserve 
thee, understanding shall keep thee." 
And again: "He that is slow to wrath 
is of great understanding. Wisdom 
resteth in the heart (Soul) of him that 
hath understanding. Understanding is 
a well-spring of life unto him that hath 
it. Wisdom is before him that hath 

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understanding. He that hath knowl- 
edge spareth his words; and a man of 
understanding is of an excellent spirit. 
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own 
Soul; he that keepeth understanding 
shall find good." 

When these three great faculties of 
the Soul — which are defined as being 
the spirit of God — are developed, the 
others will surely follow as the fruit of 
the spirit — righteousness, benevolence, 
purity and love. 

Man having attained the capacity for 
higher intellectual development, what 
can prevent him from going on to per- 
fection? "They that seek the knowl- 
edge of good and evil understand all 
things." "There is nothing hid that 
shall not be revealed." With knowl- 
edge as a rudder, wisdom for a compass, 
and understanding in command, we can 

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sail our ship of life safely across the 
great ocean of time, into the harbor of 
righteousness, purity and love, and take 
our rightful places among the gods. 

" Jesus answered them, is it not writ- 
ten in your law, I said, Ye are gods."* 

Human beings are transformed by the 
spirit of God (Good) into Superhuman 
beings — gods. This transformation 
gives man an idea of the wonderful 
power of the intellectual or Soul facul- 
ties when developed. 

The term righteousness, as used in 
the Scriptures— in which it chiefly oc- 
curs — is equivalent to holiness, purity, 
uprightness, equity, justice, integrity, 
honesty, faithfulness and godliness — 
not deviating from the true and the 
just; according with truth and duty. 
The desire of the righteous is only good. 



*Jno. 10-34. 

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" Blessed are they that doeth right- 
eousness at all times." "Lord, who shall 
abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell 
in thy holy hill ? He that walketh up- 
rightly, and worketh righteousness, and 
speaketh the truth in his heart. " "I 
put on righteousness, and it clothed me ; 
my judgment was as a robe and a dia- 
dem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet 
was I to the lame. I was a father to 
the poor; and the cause which I knew 
not I searched out." "I have preached 
righteousness in the great congrega- 
tion; I have not hid thy righteousness 
within my heart; I have not concealed 
thy loving kindness and thy truth from 
the great congregation. In the way of 
righteousness is life and in the pathway 
thereof there is no death." "Righteous- 
ness exalteth a nation." "He that fol- 
loweth after righteousness and mercy 



ITS ORGAN AND DEVELOPMENT 

findeth life." " Blessed are they that 
hunger and thirst after righteousness." 

The excellence of righteousness is 
thus set forth in the Scriptures, and 
very little on the subject is found else- 
where. 

Righteousness is the first fruit of the 
spirit, of knowledge, wisdom and un- 
derstanding. No human being can be 
righteous until the great Soul faculties 
are developed, which have power to 
cause the transformation. When the 
intellectual faculties, which the Scrip- 
tures define as being the Spirit of God, 
are developed, the others follow as the 
day follows the night, and the glorious 
light of the knowledge of the Soul dis- 
pels all darkness and doubt. "Ask for 
the old paths, walk therein and ye shall 
find rest for your souls." 

Benevolence is the disposition to do 

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good. It is good will — love of mankind. 
Benevolence marks a disposition made 
up of a choice and desire for the happi- 
ness of others, and an irresistible desire 
to do unto others as you would that they 
should do to you. 

Purity is freedom from moral defile- 
ment or guilt. It is innocence, guiltless- 
ness, chastity, freedom from improper 
motives or views. i ' Blessed are the pure 
in heart, for they shall see God. ' ' " The 
words of the pure are pleasant words." 
"As for the pure, his work is right. 
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever 
things are honest, whatsoever things are 
just, whatsoever things are pure, if 
there be any virtue, think on these 
things." 

Love, in its true and divine concep- 
tion, creates in the one who possesses it 

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all good qualities, or the desire to pos- 
sess them. 

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, 
with all thy heart, and with all thy Soul, 
and all thy strength, and all thy mind, 
and thy neighbor as thyself. " " But the 
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 
gentleness, goodness, meekness, temper- 
ance ; against such there is no law. But 
whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth 
his brother have need, and shutteth up 
his bowels of compassion from him, how 
dwelleth the love of God in him? Let 
us not love in word, neither in tongue ; 
but in deed and in truth." 

First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, 
fully explains the wonderful power of 
love, the highest faculty of the Soul. 



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Chapter VII. 

DUALISM 
THE OLD AND NEW INTERPRE- 
TATION, MYSTICISM 

"There is a natural body, (human) and there is a 
Spiritual body (Super-human). Howbeit, that was not 
first which is Spiritual, but that which is natural; and 
afterward that which is Spiritual." 

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
Spirit of God. Neither can he know them, because they 
are Spiritually discerned." 

"The Spirit of God will come upon thee, and thou 
shalt be turned into another man (Super-man)." 

The general conception of dualism, as 
promulgated by philosophers and theol- 
ogians from the dawn of civilization, is 
stated by Haeckel to be the hypothesis 
that the human body is a double entity, 
a mortal body containing an immortal 
Soul, which leaves the body at death. 

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Therefore, the term Soul — according to 
the advocates of this theory — is defined 
by Angel as that spiritual essence of 
human personality which persists after 
death. 

In a wider sense, the term dualism 
may be applied to any theory founded 
on the principle of double personality. 
It may be thus used with regard to the 
doctrine that two distinct personalities 
existed in Jesus, the human and the di- 
vine — or human and superhuman. 
Physiologically it is also applicable to 
the theory that the two hemispheres of 
the brain act independently : the one be- 
ing developed and used by the mind, the 
other being the physical basis of the 
Soul, and in which the higher or intel- 
lectual faculties are located. 

This second hemisphere is not devel- 
oped in the purely human being. Thus, 

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in the limitations of ordinary human in- 
telligence , may be found an explanation 
of the dual personality of Jesus. We 
are told that he led the ordinary life of 
a human being until about the age of 
twenty-six. After his baptism in the 
River Jordan by John the Baptist, it is 
recorded that he received the baptism of 
the Holy Spirit — or Spirit of Grod. The 
Biblical definition of the Spirit of God 
is knowledge, wisdom and understand- 
ing. (Isa. 11-2.) Knowledge, Wisdom 
and Understanding are the three first 
faculties of the Soul. About four years 
after his baptism, Jesus began to teach. 
He was transformed from a human be- 
ing into a Superhuman or Divine Be- 
ing by the power of the intellectual fac- 
ulties. 

He said unto his disciples : " Ye shall 
be baptized with the baptism that I am 

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baptized with" — that is they would be 
intellectually developed. ' ' Whatever 
may be the opinion of those who have 
studied the teachings of Jesus," says the 
London Spectator, "all must agree that 
he was an idealist. He pointed out as 
the aim of mankind an impossible stand- 
ard of human character. His ideal of 
love in act and thought and deed was 
superhuman, and the best efforts of a 
human creature to fulfill its obligations 
merely result in the consciousness of 
each one that his efforts have been 
inadequate." 

"Jesus preached perfection, and ad- 
mitted that to perfection no man can 
attain. ' ' Man must be transformed into 
the Superhuman before he can love his 
neighbor as himself, and do unto others 
as he would have others do to him. Hu- 
man beings cannot do these things. 

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"And lie spake many things unto the 
multitude in parables. His disciples 
said unto him, why speakest thou unto 
them in parables? Because it is given 
unto you to know the mysteries of the 
kingdom of Heaven, but to them it is not 
given. They seeing, see not ; and hear- 
ing they hear not, neither do they un- 
derstand. But blessed are your eyes, for 
they see ; and your ears, for they hear. 
And when they were alone he expound- 
ed all things to his disciples. " 

"But the natural man receiveth not 
the things of the Spirit of God, for they 
are foolishness unto Him; neither can 
he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually (intellectually) discerned." 

These passages plainly teach that hu- 
man beings cannot understand the 
higher truths that transform them into 



*Mat. 13. 

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superior beings until they have been, 
taught and are qualified to understand 
them. This makes clear the double per- 
sonality of man : first, a human being — 
a savage ; second, a Superhuman — civil- 
ized being, transformed by the Spirit of 
God, or by the development of the intel- 
lectual faculties. This is the new birth. 
"And the Spirit of the Lord shall come 
upon thee, and thou shalt be turned into 
another man — ( Superman )." 

MYSTICISM 

In its higher interpretation, mysti- 
cism may be understood to mean direct 
intercourse with the Divine Spirit — 
knowledge of spiritual things not at- 
tainable by the natural or human mind. 
"It is the conception of the Soul as 
something that can see and perceive the 
Spiritual verities as unmistakably as the 
mind can grasp material things. ' ' " The 

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dynamic part of the mystical principle 
may be said to lie in the quickening of 
the desire for direct intercourse with 
the Divine. " Excellency in the highest 
degree — above that which is human, and 
is therefore Superhuman, is the mean- 
ing of Divine which the author here de- 
sires to convey. 

The Soul attains knowledge of a 
higher degree than that of the mind, and 
far above any knowledge attained by the 
senses; but the Soul of the intellectual 
or spiritual man alone has wings, and is 
ever being initiated into perfect mys- 
teries. 

What is now known as mysticism will 
no longer appear mysterious when the 
intellectual faculties are developed. 

Transcendent means very excellent — 
superior or supreme in excellence ; that 
which lies beyond the human mind. 

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Through the cultivation of the higher 
intellectual faculties this state is at- 
tained. 

It has been well said that if God de- 
sired to reveal to man His mysteries, He 
must endue him with higher faculties 
before he can understand them. 

"What a piece of work is man; how 
infinite in faculty !" writes Shake- 
speare. 

"Jesus said unto his disciples, It is 
given unto you to know the mysteries of 
the kingdom of Heaven."* 

"There is nothing covered that shall 
not be revealed, and hid that shall not 
be known, "t 

"The revelation of the mystery, which 
was kept secret since the world began, 



*Mat. 18-11. 
fMat. 10-96. 



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but now is made manifest, and by the 
Scriptures of the prophets."* 

"If by any means I might attain unto 
the resurrection of the dead ; God shall 
reveal even this unto you."f 

Mysticism aims to qualify man to 
transcend the ordinary human life, and 
to live a higher intellectual or spiritual 
life as a Superhuman being. 

Dr. Haeckel gives the general accept- 
ed meaning of Dualism. "The human 
body is a double entity, a mortal body 
containing an immortal Soul, which 
leaves the body at death." 

That each brain hemisphere acts in- 
dependently of the other ; and that two 
distinct personalities, a human and a 
Divine, existed in Jesus, is the author's 
conception of the true meaning of 
Dualism. 



*Rom. 16-95, 2t 
fPhil. 3-11, 15. 



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Chapter VIII. 

SUPERMAN, 

THE MEANING NOT CLEARLY 

UNDERSTOOD 

DEFINITION 
Superman — "A symbol of man raised to its highest 
power. How can man be trained up to his highest power? 
How can such training be made accessible to all?" 

Nietzche, in his famous declaration, 
asserts : "I teach you beyond man. Man 
is something that shall be surpassed. 
What have you done to surpass man? 
All things hitherto have created some- 
thing beyond themselves, and are ye go- 
ing to be the ebb of this great tide, and 
rather revert to the animal than sur- 
pass man ? What with man is the ape ? 
a joke or sore shame. Man shall be the 
same for beyond man, a joke or sore 

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shame. Behold, I teach you beyond 
man (Superman)/' 

Current Literature for February, 
1909, says: "No word in modern phil- 
osophical parlance has gone farther 
than the word Superman? It touches 
contemporary thought at almost every 
point ; it is the symbol of much that is 
latent in life and literature of the pres- 
ent time. Yet who can tell just what it 
signifies ?" 

The Outlook for February 11, 1911, 
declares: "Every fine instinct, noble im- 
pulse, and large views of truth revolt 
against the Superman, that hideously 
perverted ideal of greatness which the 
contemporary pessimists have fashioned 
out of egotism, conceit, brutality, and 
greed of power and pleasure; a figure 
more repulsive than the most revolting 
image of the evil forces personified by 

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the imagination of the savage. The Su- 
perman is the incarnation of ruthless 
egotism, the personification of the anti- 
social vices, a nightmare which haunts 
the dreams of those whose minds trem- 
ble on the verge of moral insanity. The 
Superman would be the ideal man if the 
devil were God ; in a world in which the 
Christ has lived the Superman is the 
devil in human form, a beast of prey 
clothed like a human being." 

TRUE MEANING 

In reply to the Outlook's conception 
of the meaning of Superman, I shall 
quote Cromwell's advice to the Scots: 
"I beseech you in the tender mercies of 
the Lord, believe it possible that you 
may be wrong." 

The meaning of the word Superman 
does not appear to be clearly understood. 
Super means above, and man means a 

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human being. Therefore, the word Su- 
perman means a being above man — a 
superhuman being. 

The Hebrews and Greeks used the 
word gods to distinguish superhuman 
beings from human beings. Socrates 
used the word demon — a being of in- 
termediate nature between the Divine 
and the human. The word Superman 
may properly be applied with the same 
significance. 

The following definition has been given 
of Superman: "A symbol of man raised 
to its highest power. " A superhuman 
being, or superior being is, accordingly, 
identical with the Superman in the high- 
est and best sense of the term. When 
we rise to the level of the Superman, 
the terms man — human being, and su- 
perior man must of necessity be left be- 
hind. They are not adequate. We have 

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had superior and inferior men, "like the 
poor, with us always." 

"This, then, is the problem: how can 
man be trained up to his highest power % 
How can such training be made acces- 
sible to all?" If there is a higher life 
on this earth than is recognized by hu- 
man beings, it is the business of science 
to raise them to this higher level, and 
qualify them to understand its nature. 

"There is more in us than the mind 
discovers. We have many things within 
us which our senses have not placed 
there. Man contains a being superior 
to the one he knows." 

The higher faculties, not yet devel- 
oped in man, as has already been stated, 
are knowledge of good and evil, wis- 
dom, understanding, righteousness, be- 
nevolence, purity and love. We are told 
in Genesis that God said: "Behold, the 

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man is become as one of us, to know good 
and evil" — the condition of Superman 
or gods. 

It is also written: " There is a nat- 
ural body (human body) and there is a 
Spiritual body (Superhuman body). 
Howbeit, that was not first which is 
Spiritual, but which is natural (or men- 
tal) ; and afterward that which is Spir- 
itual (or intellectual)." 

Webster defines spiritual as meaning 
"Of or pertaining to the intellectual and 
higher endowments of the soul — intel- 
lectual. ' ' The word spiritual, therefore, 
means intellectual. 

The realization of the Superman lies 
in the development of the higher or in- 
tellectual faculties. Herbert Spencer 
maintains that to prepare man for com- 
plete living is the function which edu- 
cation has to perform. 

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"God said unto Adam: 'I have made 
thee neither celestial nor terrestial, 
neither mortal nor immortal, in order 
that you may chisel yourself and edu- 
cate yourself into whatever image and 
being you please. You can degenerate 
to the beast, you may ascend to God.' " 

"The ultimate for man is to become 
like God." 

"He will come, and His name will be the Man- god. 
The God-man? The Man-god; there is a difference." 

— Dostoievsky. 



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Chapter IX. 

THE TRUE PROGRESS OF MAN- 
KIND, AND HOW PROMOTED 

"National progress, political progress, these may have 
been; but how about moral excellence and intellectual 
power? The higher creative powers of man have not 
grown stronger. Who will even assert that the love of 
truth and the courage to deliver the truth has grown 
stronger or more common?" 

Progress means a moving forward to- 
ward ideal completeness or perfection in 
respect to quality or conditions, applied 
to individuals, communities or the en- 
tire race. It means a rise in capacity — 
the development of higher faculties, and 
has to do with quality only. Through 
it comes increased power in mental and 
intellectual faculties, and the evolution 
of superior beings. 

Genuine progress takes place when 

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men and women are properly educated 
and raised above the ordinary level, es- 
tablishing a superior standard of mental 
and intellectual excellence. Society 
should make every effort to produce 
ideal men and women, training them by 
precept and example in the ways of 
goodness and truth. Mankind may, in 
no other way, attain the highest level of 
development — the condition of the Su- 
perman. 

GENIUS AND TALENT 

Mrs. Martin of New York has writ- 
ten an excellent book entitled: "Is Man- 
kind Advancing ? ' ' She thinks that the 
word progress should be limited to sig- 
nify a rise in human capacity, and the 
development of higher orders of human 
beings. We must, she says, " develop a 
higher order of beings before we can at- 
tain the goal of completeness and per- 

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fection." Mankind is a term which in- 
dicates human beings. We must go be- 
yond man, and develop Superman, or 
superhuman beings. 

Mrs. Martin concludes that the de- 
gree of progress of any age may be de- 
termined only by the impress left upon 
it by the men of genius produced dur- 
ing a given period. Without doubt she 
bases her conclusion upon Huxley's 
statement: "The advance of mankind 
has everywhere depended upon the pro- 
duction of men of genius." "We must 
judge any period by the number and 
ability of its men of genius.'' "Aris- 
totle," says Hegel, "was a genius beside 
whom no age has an equal to place." 
Emerson says of Plato, "Compare Plato 
with other men. How many ages have 
gone by, and he remains unapproached. ' ' 
Mrs. Martin lists about twenty-seven 

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men of transcendent genius, beginning 
with Moses, and calls attention to the 
fact that Athens produced, in a few 
years, ten of the twenty-seven. 

But the present ignorant and upro- 
gressive condition of the world bears 
witness that the number of geniuses 
heretofore produced have not been suf- 
ficient to insure the progress of the 
race. 

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDED 

True progress does not depend upon 
geniuses. It demands a scientific edu- 
cational system, one that has power to 
develop superior beings. Talent pre- 
supposes general mental and intellectual 
strength, with a peculiar aptitude for 
being molded or directed to valuable 
ends and purposes. This is dependent 
on high mental and intellectual training, 
and a perfect command of all the fac- 

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ulties of the mind and Soul. Talent is 
the result of scientific education and 
training. Genius is an accident of birth. 
The great need of the world is superior 
beings, well-balanced, and qualified to 
teach mankind the way to attain a 
higher life of happiness, peace and joy- 
while on this earth. This educational 
system, formulated and taught, will de- 
velop the Superman, defined as being 
a symbol of mankind raised to its high- 
est power. We cannot expect genuine 
progress until an educational system — 
which carries with it power to trans- 
form ignorant, savage and barbarous 
human beings into civilized Superhu- 
man beings — is formulated, taught and 
practiced. 

If a man desires to aid humanity in 
its progress toward the highest ideal by 
doing something that has never been 

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done before, he must first blaze a new 
trail through the wilderness of human 
ignorance. "We ought not to expect 
that things, which have never yet been 
done, can be done except by means which 
have never been tried. " In place of the 
ineffectual efforts of the human mind, 
a scientific system of education must be 
supplied, which will enable man to pro- 
gress with mathematical certainty up to 
the full and complete development of the 
intellectual faculties, or faculties of the 
Soul. 

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for 
the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the 
latter lies in the depths, where few are willing to search." 

— Goethe. 



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Chapter X. 

EDUCATION, 
ITS PURPORT AND AIMS 

"The world needs trained and disciplined superior men 
and women (Superman), who know, and who can think, 
who can perceive and interpret, whose mental and intel- 
lectual faculties are instruments of precision, and whose 
judgments are made strong by knowledge." 

Education is defined as " acquirement 
by any course of discipline and instruc- 
tion; the systematic development and 
cultivation of the mind and Soul." It 
has for its aim, therefore, the develop- 
ment of the powers of man. It implies 
the communication of knowledge; the 
development of the intellectual faculties, 
and discipline of the mind and Soul; 
the establishment of true basic princi- 
ples upon which may be formulated 

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right rules to guide man in progress to- 
ward the highest ideal. Through this 
education man secures that progressive 
development in which all of the great 
problems of life are to find their solu- 
tion. In the last analysis, education af- 
fords a method by which ignorant, bru- 
tal, savage and barbarous human beings 
may be transformed into wise, righteous, 
benevolent and loving Superhuman be- 
ings. 

No person may be correctly termed 
educated until knowledge is organized 
into faculty. Faculty is the ability to 
act or perform — inborn or cultivated ca- 
pacity for any natural function. To be 
specific, it is an organized mental and 
intellectual power or capacity for any 
of the known mental and intellectual ac- 
tivities: physic or Soul capacity; intel- 
lectual endowment or powei — as facul- 

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ties of the mind and Soul. Faculty is 
properly limited to the endowments 
which are natural to man and universal 
to the race. 

PURPOSE OF EDUCATION 

" What ought people to be ? How can 
we change them from what they are to 
what they ought to be?" There is but 
one way in which this may be accom- 
plished. A scientific, educational sys- 
tem must be formulated and taught, one 
that has power to develop the intellect- 
ual faculties, in order to effect such a 
result. The purpose of education is to 
uplift mankind, and to develop the tal- 
ents. Talent presupposes general men- 
tal and intellectual strength, with a pe- 
culiar aptitude for being molded or di- 
rected to valuable ends and purposes. 
Talent depends on high mental and in- 
tellectual training, and a perfect com- 

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mand of all the faculties of mind and 
Soul. Talent is the result of true scien- 
tific education, taught and practiced. 

Either there is or there is not a higher 
and better life than is recognized by our 
ordinary selves. If there is, it is the 
business of science to ascertain its na- 
ture, and to teach man how to attain it. 

"Excellence is never made easy of 
attainment for mankind. We may have 
every excellence if we are willing to pay 
for it with its equivalent of toil." There 
is no royal road to knowledge. The 
world needs trained and disciplined su- 
perior men and women, beings who know, 
and who can think, who can perceive 
and interpret, whose mental and intel- 
lectual faculties are instruments of pre- 
cision, and whose judgments are made 
steady by knowledge. They must feel 

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that they know how human beings be- 
come educated, and be able to teach oth- 
ers the way. They hold an intellectual 
ideal of what mankind is capable of be- 
coming, and have the knowledge and 
ability to put this ideal into practice. 

The one essential aim of education is 
to aw r aken the interior activities of the 
individual — to start his intellectual ma- 
chinery so that he will run himself au- 
tomatically. It is the same end that 
must be sought to insure the success of 
the institution, which is never success- 
ful until it runs of its own momentum, 
impelled by the life within. At the pres- 
ent hour, the duty before us is to seek 
out that which lies dormant within, and 
to quicken into life the infinite faculties 
which we possess. "What a piece of 
work is man — how infinite in faculty ! ' ' 

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MIND AND SOUL DEVELOPMENT THKOUGH 
EDUCATION 

The intellectual or Soul faculties can- 
not be developed until we have formul- 
ated a superior educational system. Our 
present educational system has no 
power to reach the higher faculties. 

Some of the foremost educators of 
the world have expressed their opinions 
of our present system of education as 
follows : 

"All over the world the traditional 
methods of education have been tried 
and found wanting." — Professor Wen- 
dell. 

"We teachers are searching for the 
fundamental principles of the thing we 
are trying to do. I have had the ex- 
perience of feeling that I was bending 
all my efforts to do a thing which was 
not susceptible of being done, and that 

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the teaching that I profest to do was 
done in a vacuum ; as if done without an 
atmosphere in which the forces might be 
transmuted." — Woodrow Wilson. 

"Any teaching that does not reveal 
the secret of power is not worthy the 
name." — David Starr Jordan. 

"Compared with our astonishing 
progress in physical science, and its 
practical application, our system of gov- 
ernment, of administrative justice, of 
national education, and our entire social 
and moral organization remain in a 
state of barbarism." — Alfred Russell 
Wallace. 

A writer in the Chicago Tribune says : 
"We are drifting into national degener- 
acy. We are becoming a crowd of well- 
drilled, well-disciplined, commonplace 
individuals, with strong Philistine hab- 
its, and notions of general mediocrity. 

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We have clever business men, cunning 
artisans, resourceful politicians, adroit 
leaders of new cults, but no artists, no 
scientists, no philosophers;, t no states- 
men, no genuine talent, and no true gen- 
ius." 

Boris Sidis, one of the leading psy- 
chologists of the times, says that we are 
blind to the barbaric evils of our envir- 
onment. He calls us bat-blind, stock- 
blind, mole-blind, and stone-blind. And 
what are the underlying causes of this 
state of affairs ? Our vicious system of 
education, and our drunken optimism, 
declares this writer, in no moderate 
terms. Our educators are owl- wise, nar- 
row-minded pedants, ignorant of the 
real, vital problems of human interests. 

The mind is developed from without. 
The highest power or faculty of the 
mind, as before stated, is the will. The 

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Soul faculties are developed by the 
will, but from within instead of with- 
out. By that which we decide to do or 
not to do, the great benefits which will 
follow the development of the intellect- 
ual faculties is clearly pointed out to the 
mind. Education is the scientific way 
whereby these benefits may be attained. 
The will, then, by its power over the 
brain cells, causes them to react and re- 
spond to its powerful stimulus. This 
stimulus, often repeated, causes changes 
in brain matter, and new seats are 
formed for the higher faculties in the 
Super-human brain. 

The very important discovery, al- 
ready noted, has been made that the 
gray matter of the brains is plastic, and 
may be changed by education. The con- 
genital functions need not remain as 
they are at birth, nor need they develop 

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upon hereditary lines. Our brains may- 
be fashioned artificially — that is by edu- 
cation, so that they may acquire many 
new functions or capacities which never 
come by birth or inheritance, but which 
may be stamped upon it as so many 
physical alterations in its substance. 
This truth gives man a fresh conception 
of the power of scientific education. 

Every method of special education 
modifies or changes the gray matter of 
the brain in certain localities, and en- 
dows it with capacity to perform special 
functions. Such is the wonderful power 
of education. "A trained musician 
plays upon his instrument as readily as 
another person reads the printed page. 
In each case the brain is modified so as 
to make the acquirement of the specific 
powers possible. ' ' Every mental and in- 
tellectual faculty is located and devel- 

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oped in our brains by the power of edu- 
cation. 

An adequate educational system 
must, therefore, be devised, taught, and 
practiced before civilized beings can be 
developed, and higher ideals realized. 
"All truth converges to the point of hu- 
man betterment and social progress. He 
who would seek truth in the scientific 
spirit, must be willing to accept facts as 
they are demonstrated, and to follow 
this truth whithersoever it may lead. 
The unselfish pursuit of truth leads not 
only to larger usefulness, but no less 
truly to simplicity and nobility of life. 
If we seek truth with a disinterested 
passion for knowledge, and a desire for 
extending the bounds of knowledge, 
surely we may accomplish things as yet 
undreamed of." 

"Learning undigested by thought, is labor lost ; thought 
unassisted by learning is perilous." 

— Confucius. 

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IDEALISM AND ITS REALIZATION 

"All idealists are in search of this 
transforming and uplifting power; 
something above the senses, which will 
bring happiness and peace. This will 
come from having a mystery to inter- 
pret, a message of higher, brighter and 
better things in store for mankind in 
this life. " 

THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF EDUCATION 

Education has for its aim the civiliza- 
tion of man. It implies the communica- 
tion of knowledge, the development of 
the mental and intellectual faculties, 
and the discipline of the mind and soul 
— the establishment of true basic prin- 
ciples upon which may be formulated 
right rules to guide mankind in progress 
toward the highest ideal. It asures that 
progressive development in which all of 
the great problems of life are to find 

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their solution. It has power to give to 
humanity trained and disciplined supe- 
rior beings, who know, who are able 
to think, perceive and interpret ; whose 
mental and intellectual faculties are 
instruments of precision, and whose 
judgments are made steady by knowl- 
edge; who feel certain of the way in 
which mankind would become educated, 
and who are able to teach others the 
way; who hold an intellectual ideal of 
what human beings are capable of be- 
coming, and have the knowledge and 
ability to put this ideal into practice. 

At the present hour the duty before us 
is to seek out that which lies dormant 
within, and to quicken into life the in- 
finite faculties which we possess, and to 
attain in the ultimate for man — to be- 
come like God. 



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Chapter XI. 

SOCIOLOGY, 

IN RELATION TO MAN'S DEVEL- 

MENT 

"Compared with our astonishing progress in physical 
science and its practical application, our system of gov- 
ernment, of administrative justice, of national education, 
and our entire social and moral organization remain in 
a state of BARBARISM." 

— Alfred Russell Wallace. 

Sociology is that branch of philosophy 
which treats of the constitution, phe- 
nomena and development of society. 
Social science is the science of all that 
relates to the social conditions, the rela- 
tions and institutions which are in- 
volved in man's existence, and his well- 
being as a member of an organized com- 
munity. The subdivisions of the science 
of sociology are economics, hygiene, 

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ethics, psychology and theology. These 
five sciences have to do with the trans- 
formation of man from the savage to the 
civilized being. 

ECONOMICS 

The branch of the science of sociology 
which is known as economics has to do 
with the production, preservation, dis- 
tribution and consumption of the neces- 
saries of life. It accordingly deals with 
man as a being who is occupied in ac- 
quiring and consuming the things abso- 
lutely necessary to maintain life. By 
showing man how all that is necessary 
for his welfare is best gained and pre- 
served, the tendency to overcome selfish- 
ness and greed — which create the desire 
to appropriate by force, without regard 
for the rights of others, that by which 
all must live — is developed. "The love 
of wealth is a very strong human pas- 

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sion, and if not restrained by higher in- 
tellectual development, usually mani- 
fests itself in robbery or war." 

"What are the attributes necessary 
to constitute a good government of a 
community, state or nation ? It must be 
guided by wisdom, animated by a spirit 
of benevolence, and pursue a policy of 
righteousness. A certain and sufficient 
livelihood must be secured for all the 
people. Without this their minds will 
be unsettled, and they will proceed to 
every form of wild license. They will 
break all laws, good and bad. When a 
sufficient and certain supply of the nec- 
essaries of life — food, clothing and shel- 
ter — can be procured for all the people 
by their labor, a suitable education 
should be provided for all. Without 
the necessaries of life, education has not 
the power to make them virtuous." — 

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Mencius. When human beings cannot se- 
cure the necessaries of life by their la- 
bor, they will violate all the laws of 
God and man. 

"The natural order of society is al- 
ways beneficent. The economic evils 
that burden mankind are due to human 
institutions, corrupted by ambition and 
avarice. Mankind must be taught the 
way back to that state in which all things 
economic will work together for the 
good of the whole human race." 

How may the necessaries of life be 
easiest secured for all the people ¥ Hu- 
man beings must be taught to work to- 
gether for the good of all, and be brought 
to a realizing sense of the fact that in 
helpfulness to others, man best helps 
himself. Human beings must be trans- 
formed by education into a higher order 
of being before they can understand the 

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civilizing power of co-operation, and its 
wonderful help to man. Human beings 
may learn much concerning social econ- 
omy from the habits of insects. From 
time immemorial insects have been or- 
ganized into seemingly intelligent co- 
operative communities. For thousand 
of years it has been the habit of ants 
and bees to live in colonies for protec- 
tion and helpfulness to each other, while 
men have lived as wild beasts in caves, 
and made war on each other. 

Ignorance, waste, and indulgence in 
expensive, unnatural habits, such as the 
use of tobacco, alcohol and harmful 
drugs are the principal causes of man's 
unhappiness and disquietude. Scientific 
education alone has power to bring man 
back to the straight and narrow path 
that leadeth unto a higher and better life 

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than may be recognized by man in his 
present ignorant state. 

It has been repeatedly stated by com- 
petent observers that the people of the 
United States waste every year enough 
to supply the French nation. If such 
is the case — and it undoubtedly is — the 
study of economics is of the greatest im- 
portance to this nation. 

We have an example of what co-oper- 
ation will do for a large community in 
the Amana Society of the state of Iowa, 
which has been in existence for about 
fifty years. It has lasted longer, and has 
been more successful than any other or- 
ganization of this kind ever formed in 
the United States. With a membership 
of about one hundred in the beginning, 
it has now a membership of some twelve 
hundred or more, and has several million 
dollars worth of property. This society 

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is a religious sect. Everything is held in 
common by the society. The accumula- 
tion of property has grown to a point 
where equal distribution would give to 
each member six thousand dollars or 
more. 

This example forever settles the prob- 
lem of economic production, preserva- 
tion and distribution of the necessaries 
of life. Mankind must be taught the 
wonderful power of scientific education 
along these lines before real civilization 
is possible. 

The unnatural struggle for mere ex- 
istence, which the masses have to con- 
tend with, is savage and barbarous. Why 
do we speak of being civilized, as long 
as the prevalent conditions exist among 
the people? 

HYGIENE 

That branch of social science which 

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treats of the preservation of health, es- 
specially of households and communi- 
ties, and lays down a system of princi- 
ples or rules designed for the promo- 
tion of health, is called hygiene. 

About fifteen hundred years B. C, 
Moses published a philosophy of health. 
From that remote period until within 
the last one hundred years the Mosaic 
code was the only one in existence. 

An old number of the North British 
Review gives an account of the deplor- 
able sanitary conditions in Shakes- 
peare's time. "The floors were of 
earth, and the broom was used but little. 
The garbage was thrown about the doors 
and windows, where it was allowed to 
rot. The earth of the floor was over- 
weighed with putrid matter, and much 
of it came into the air of the rooms. 
There was no drainage, baths were sel- 

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dom taken, clothing was changed only 
at long periods, and as a consequence of 
all this the plague was ever playing 
havoc with the people." 

Down to quite recent times, the world 
was scourged by frightful epidemics. 
It has been stated that the Black Death 
destroyed 25,000,000 human beings. 
Only two hundred years ago the death 
rate in London was eighty per thousand. 
At the present time it is not above twen- 
ty per thousand. The infant mortality 
was terrible beyond belief. 

In 1832, Dr. Southwood Smith of 
England published his philosophy of 
health. This was the beginning of the 
improvements in the application of the 
science of hygiene as we have it to-day. 
Since then a great advance has been 
made in the promotion of health, but 
much still remains to be done. 

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The first International Sanitary Con- 
gress was held in Vienna in 1874. Pre- 
vious to that time, sanitation had been 
local, and not compulsory. At this con- 
gress steps were taken to make hygiene 
of world-wide importance, and place it 
on a permanent foundation. 

Pure food, pure water, and pure air 
are doing wonders in the way of pro- 
moting the health of the world to-day. 
We must not tire of the good work, but 
keep vigilant : for mankind is prone to 
neglect the things that best prolong life. 
And, as is the case in other matters per- 
taining to human betterment, the devel- 
opment of the higher intellectual or 
Soul faculties will create in individual 
man the disposition to seek to promote 
the best conditions of health — not only 
for himself and family, but for the en- 
tire community. 

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ETHICS 

The science of duty to our fellow man 
— a particular system of principles and 
rules concerning duty, rules of practice 
in respect to human actions — is denom- 
inated ethics. 

Science must formulate a true sys- 
tem of practical ethics calculated to de- 
velop the higher faculties of the Soul. 
It is the business of science to ascer- 
tain the nature of the higher life, and 
to teach man how to attain it. "The 
strength and character of the people 
make the strength and character of the 
nation. Nations are gauged by their 
principles of integrity and honor, by 
their ethics, rather than by the strength 
of their armies and navies. The nation 
that best provides for the prosperity 
and happiness of all its people is the 
one that really stands in the front rank. 

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The races that have acquired an ever-in- 
creasing ascendency are those which 
possessed the best ethical systems.' ' 

The ethical question resolves itself 
into a search for the supreme object of 
human endeavor — the absolute and es- 
sential good. This is embodied in the 
formula of the Golden Rule. 

"We are all debtors to our fellow 
men, and ought to endeavor to be a help 
to them. It is the only way to attain 
happiness, which is the true end and 
purpose of man's existence on earth." 

PSYCHOLOGY 

This science, in its proper sense — as 
the author has attempted to show fully 
in the various chapters of this work — is 
the study of the development of the 
higher faculties of the Soul, not the 
mere investigation and record of the 
functions of the brain and mental phe- 

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nomena. It is, moreover, the basis for 
movements in the direction of the gen- 
eral elevation of mankind. 

THEOLOGY 

In using the term theology here, it is 
not applied in its dogmatic sense. It is 
the science of God — the science which 
treats of the character and attributes of 
God, His laws, and the duties we are to 
practice in order to develop character 
and attributes that will bring us into 
close relation, and give us knowledge 
and understanding of the true nature of 
God. "Many speak of theology as a 
science of religion instead of a science 
of God, because they do not believe that 
any knowledge of God may be attained. ' ■ 
Theology is ordered knowledge, repre- 
senting in the Soul or intellect that 
which religion represents in the mind 
of man. Scientific theology reveals to 

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man the truth of the following quota- 
tions from the Bible, and gives him 
power to understand them. 

"And ye shall seek me, and find me, 
when ye shall search for me with all 
your Soul." "They that seek the Lord 
understand all things." "Seek and ye 
shall find. " " He that seeketh findeth. ' ' 
"Moses hid his face, for he was afraid 
to look upon God." "Then went up 
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, 
and seventy of the elders of Israel. And 
they saw God and did eat and drink." 
"If there be a prophet among you, I, the 
Lord, will make myself known unto him, 
and with him I will speak mouth to 
mouth, even apparently, and the simili- 
tude of the Lord shall he behold. " "The 
Lord talked with you face to face in 
the mount." "The glory of the Lord 
shall be revealed." Glory means the 

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presence of the Divine Being — the man- 
ifestation of the divine nature. "The 
earth shall be full of the knowledge of 
God as the water covers the sea. " " Be- 
hold, God exalteth by His power; who 
teaches like Him." 

When these sciences are taught, un- 
derstood and practiced, a race of supe- 
rior beings will be developed far above 
man. The ultimate for man is to become 
like God — to realize the ideal of the 
Superman. 

Gautama Buddah when he started on his mission said: 
"I go to Benares to establish the kingdom of righteous- 
ness, to furnish light to those enshrouded in darkness, 
and to open the gate of immortality to men. Hence- 
forth I live only to be the prophet of perfect truth. The 
highest attainment, far above all others is, Universal 
Charity, or Love." 



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Chapter XII. 

TEACHING, 
DEVELOPING THE SOUL FAC- 
ULTIES 

"Behold, God exalteth by his power who teacheth like 
Him." 

"Any teaching that does not reveal 
the secret of power is not worthy the 
name." 

"Knowledge is power," therefore, the 
secret lies in the attainment of knowl- 
edge that has to do with transforming 
ignorant human beings into educated 
superhuman or superior beings. This 
knowledge when acquired gives man- 
kind power to transcend the ordinary 
human life, and live a higher intellect- 
ual or Spiritual life. 

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The human mind cannot grasp the 
higher knowledge, the intellectual or 
Soul faculties must be developed before 
it can be understood. 

"The mind is but a point, and seems 
to be shut up in the magic circle of its 
own ideas, without any capacity of 
breaking through the circle or appre- 
hending any reality but itself. " — Des- 
cartes. 

"How may we become informed of 
things too high for our own knowledge ? 
We should strive to learn from the 
great teachers, prophets, and poets, of 
the human race, whose writings are 
opened to us by education. " 

"Especially should we learn how to 
interpret and understand the Bible, 
which the nations hold in such high 
honor. " — Sir Oliver Lodge. 

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Luther and the Westminster Assem- 
bly formulated rules which if followed 
will enable the " learned and unlearned 
to attain a sufficient understanding of 
them." 

Luther said: "It is the attribute of 
Holy Scripture that it interprets itself 
by passages and places which belong to- 
gether.' ' 

Westminster Confession of Faith, 
Chapter I, Article 9: "The infallible 
rule of interpretation of Scripture is 
the Scripture itself; and therefore, 
when there is a question about the true 
and full sense of any Scripture, it may 
be searched and known by other places 
that speak more clearly on the subject." 

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy 
of Scripture is of any private interpre- 
tation." These rules, if applied, will 

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enable any one to understand the true 
teachings of the Scriptures. 

" Every thinking man realizes thalt 
the teachings of the Bible are so inter- 
woven with our whole civic and social 
life that it would be literally impossible 
for us to figure what that life would be 
if those teachings were removed. We 
would lose almost all the standards by 
which we judge both private and public 
morals." — Theodore Roosevelt. 

"Time destroys the worthless and 
saves the good. The Bible has stood the 
test of time. It contains the essence of 
practical wisdom for every relation of 
life. There are many people of intelli- 
gence who regard this book with indif- 
ference. They would not do so after 
giving it careful study and thought. We 
find no books of worth that do not bear 
unquestioned evidence of the writer's 

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knowledge of the Bible. Shakespeare, 
the greatest writer the race has pro- 
duced, shows in his work marvelous fa- 
miliarity with the book. Character is 
more to be desired than wealth, influ- 
ence, position, fame, or any other at- 
tainment within the reach of man. When 
we read this book with the purpose of 
transmitting its truths into character it 
is invaluable." — Eugene Hale. 

The wireless message which came 
from Admiral Evans, is almost literally 
from the Bible. Job says : i ' Canst thou 
say to the lightning, Here we are?" 
But the miracle of this Admiral's speak- 
ing to us is unutterably strange and 
means a lot more than the message to 
me. It means that we are going to find 
out something more pretty soon — may- 
be the visible God, as Moses saw Him 
in the burning bush. ' ' — Joaquin Miller. 

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" Where there is no vision, the people 
perish." 

The development of the intellectual or 
Soul faculties is accomplished by per- 
suading the mind, by showing the reason 
and advantage of the proposed step for- 
ward, and inducing it to act through the 
will. 

The will is plainly that by which the 
mind chooses anything, and is the one 
supreme faculty of the mind, the faculty 
of faculties. 

The faculty which distinguishes good 
from evil is the first intellectual or Soul 
faculty: It is indeed a high and re- 
markable faculty, "And the Lord God 
said, Behold, the man is become as one 
of us, to know good and evil." 

Good and evil in the last analysis will 
be found to lie in certain dispositions of 
the will, How may this be determined? 

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By "analytic insight" the dynamic 
power of the will. This insight arises 
out of concentration of the power of all 
the faculties "upon the subject in hand, 
marshalling together all the facts and 
opinions attainable upon it, and dwell- 
ing on these, and scrutinizing and com- 
paring them until a light flashes on the 
whole subject. "By the power of ' an- 
alytic insight' man can begin the devel- 
opment of new anatomical bases in the 
superhuman brain in which the intel- 
lectual faculties are to be located. These 
bases can only be developed by the dyna- 
mic power of the will, which alone has 
power to change cells and fibers in the 
superior brain. ' ' " The organ last devel- 
oped performs the highest functions." 
There is no exception to this rule. 

While the intellectual faculties are be- 
ing developed, the will increases in 

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power until the human will is incorpor- 
ated and lost in the Divine Will. "For 
so is the will of God ; that with well do- 
ing ye may put to silence the ignorance 
of foolish men." "For I am come, not 
to do mine own will, but the will of 
Him that sent me." 

Study the Scriptures diligently, apply 
the rules, submit every question of 
doubt to analytic insight, develop the 
dormant faculties within, and all the 
mysteries of the higher life shall be re- 
vealed unto you. 

"And the Spirit of the Lord God 
shall rest upon thee, the Spirit of 
knowledge, wisdom and understanding 
and thou shall be turned into another 
man." — (Superman). 



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